Environmental Hu-manatees
This children’s book by Anna Sewell features a horse as the first person protagonist.
Black Beauty
This poet drowned in a sailing accident in 1822
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Winnie the Pooh's creator, A.A. Milne, named this character after his son
Christopher Robin
These two names are repeated in our department roster
Morgan and Olivia
This school of criticism examines the social and historical context of texts
(New) Historicism
Some argue it started with the Industrial Revolution, some say it started with the Great Acceleration. This in the term for the geological epoch we live in right now.
Anthropocene
This Black poet, activist, author's 1980 The Cancer Journals details her journey with breast cancer
Audre Lorde
In Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Jo March wants to be this when she grows up
An author (or writer)
Jena is (in)famous for loving this emo band
My Chemical Romance
Judith Butler's seminal 1990 book
Gender Trouble
The name for the environmental disaster that forced the Joad family to migrate to California in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.
The Dust Bowl
The name of Prince Harry's tell-all
Spare
L. M. Montgomery's classic staring an 11-year-old orphaned girl Anne Shirley.
Anne of Green Gables
Adam both studies and practices this visual art
comics
This political philosopher declared that this was the "end of history"
Francis Fukuyama
This is the title of the allegorical novella that preaches against Stalinism, this novel featuring a white pig based on Leon Trotsky.
Animal Farm
This author became close friends with James Joyce in Paris
Ernest Hemmingway
Vorpal sword
The name of Morgan Lewis' new baby <3
Darcy
The term for multiple languages operating, conflictually and interactively, at the same time within one text
heteroglossia
Coined by the less sinister Nixon, this is the term for incremental environment destruction rather than sudden, explosive decline.
Slow violence
In 1842, this author traveled to Brussels, Belgium, to study at the Pensionnat Héger, a school for young women, where she fell in love with the headmistress's husband, Constantin Héger, who also taught at the school.
Charlotte Bronte
A riddle from Tolkien's The Hobbit:
"A box without hinges, key, or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid."
What am I?
An egg
This animal studies scholar also plays Animal Crossing
Kelsey Quinn
According to Foucault, this is a space that exists "outside" or "other" than mainstream society, possessing its own unique rules, meanings, and functions, and often serving as a site of resistance or transformation.
Heterotopia